I learned yesterday what a Thello is. It’s a train company that runs night trains (with sleeper cars) from Paris Gare de Lyon (an hour north of our house), with a stop in Dijon (half an hour south of our house), before traveling through the night to Milan and all of northern...
The Long Goodbye: Embracing Life Is Slowly Killing Me
I WANT TO FIND whoever said getting there is half the fun, and beat him bloody with a three-ring binder – a thick black one, like the notebooks we filled with enough documents to constitute our complete life stories and dragged to the French consulate in Houston three weeks ago to apply for our...
Feeling French: We went to France, and all we got was this amazing house
A bit of madness is key To give us new colors to see Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us… Here’s to the ones who dream. — Mia, in “La La Land” So here is the next adventure,...
Two great nights with Peter the Egyptian-Italian-Venetian restaurateur
Aya, Peter and Paula at Trattoria Mesericordia in Venice Our five-day stay in Venice ended at the same place where it started: Trattoria Misericordia in the Cannaregio neighborhood of Venice. On our first night, we arrived before anyone else, and sat outside at a table on the edge of a side canal in...
Changing the world, one modest project at a time: Bringing water to Cambodian high school students
Watch the video to learn more about this worthy, achievable project to improve a small group of lives in a small corner of the world. A post by Brendan O’Byrne, United States Peace Corp Volunteer, Cambodia, 2015-16 The Project The high school where I teach in Cambodia just got a new bathroom built...
Upcoming: Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Phnom Penh, Ireland, Scotland
Love is all you need: A philosopher waxes eloquent on a philosophy of travel
Bill, Greer, James, Paula, Amy, Michael. The Karijini Six. We are blessed with friendships not only around the country, but around the world. One of our friends, Michael Levine, of Fremantle, Australia, has had a really profound impact on how we view travel, by imparting to us his very simple philosophy about...
Cruising Manhattan: Take a classic cabin cruiser around the island for incomparable views
People who visit New York frequently all have their favorite places to go and things to see. After the last two times traveling here, we’ve added a favorite to our New York experience. Last spring, Paula and I took a Classic Harbor Line architecture cruise that circled about half of Manhattan and brought us up close...
An amazing encounter with the Northern Lights
There are a lot of really good reasons to travel. Here’s one: By pushing yourself into new places, moments inevitably happen that show us how incredibly beautiful our planet is, how tiny and fragile we are upon it, and yet how much we are connected to it, all in an instant. Last night,...
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
— Mark Twain